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Recipient atrial flutter masquerading as donor flutter in a heart transplant recipient.

Karim RM, Siddiqui TS, Raible S, Deam AG

Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40202, USA. rkarim99@yahoo.com

Atrial flutter is common after orthotopic heart transplantation. We present the case of a patient who presented with atrial flutter on 12-lead electrocardiogram. On invasive electrophysiologic study, the donor heart was found to be in sinus rhythm and the recipient atrium was in flutter, which was dissociated from the donor.

Published 3 April 2007 in J Heart Lung Transplant, 26(4): 414-6.
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